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s. PERRY; DEVICE EUR ARRANGING RAILS IN SERIAL ORDER. No. 282.666. Patented Aug. 7, 1883.l

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, STUART PERRY, OF NEVPORT, NEV YORK.

DEVICE FOR ARVRANGING NAILS IN SERIAL ORDER.

SPECIFICATION -forming part of LLettersPatent No.n282,666, dated August 7, 1883.

i ApplieationfiledJuzic 3,1882. (Nomodel.) 4 y T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STUART PERRY, of N ew port, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Arranging Nails in Serial Order 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains' to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in devices for arrc nging nails in serial order, the object being to provide means for charging magazines adapted to be discharged by automatic nail-driving devices.

With this end in view, my invention consists in certain details of Aconstruction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of devices embodying my improvement, a portion of the deilector being broken away to show the manner in which the magazines are grouped and supported while being charged. Fig. 2 is 'a view in vertical longitudinal section of the device shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of a nail-scoop employed in connection with the devices shown in Figs. l and 2, and Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of a portable nail-magazine.

A represents a case or tray, provided with fingers B, between which the opposite ends of the magazine C are received. A similar case or deflector, D, adaptedto be secured to the case A, is provided with a series of cross-bars, E, the upper faces of which are provided with two bevels inclining inopposite directions, the said cross-bars being appropriately arranged, so that when the case D is mounted upon the case A, as aforesaid, the beveled bars will deflect the nails, which are thrown in a mass into the case D, into the open tops of the magazines; and inasmuch as the tops thereofv are broad enough-only to receive the points and shanks of the nails, they will be suspended in serial order in the said magazines by their heads, as

shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The scoop F is designed to be used in removing the nails remaining in the deector D after the magazines are charged, and also to be employed in moving the nails from place to order to get the greatest possible number of nails into each magazine, after they are partially charged the cases are inclined, which will cause the nails in the magazines Yto slide by their own gravity into the depressed ends thereof. After the cases have been inclined with the results above stated, they are again inclined in a plane at right angles tothe plane of the iirst inclination. This will cause the loose nails to iiow to the depressed end of the case D, where they will be'collccted in the scoop F, previously placed in position. The scoop is now employed to distribute the nails over those portions of the magazines which are yet unlled. In this manner, by inclining the cases from side to side and by using the scoop as described, the magazines will be charged to their greatest capacity in a few moments. After charging the magazines the case D is removed to permit them to be with# drawn from the ease in which they are supported. If desired, however, the easesAand D may b permanently secured together. If this construction is adopted, one side of the case D should be provided with an opening for the introduction and withdrawal of the magazines but, irrespective of the particular construction of the cases, it is designed that they shall be of compactand portable form. After the magazines are charged with nails arranged in serial order, as hereinabove described, it is designed to remove them from the chargingcase and introduce them separately into nail-driving devices, in which they are automatically discharged. If desired, however, the magazines may be permanently secured in the chargingcase, and when charged the nails in them may be deiiected in serial order into suitably-arranged driving devices. I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, but that I hold myself at liberty to make such slight changes and al- IOO terations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim as new iS- A l. A tray, hopper, or receptacle adapted to hold nails in bulk, and constructed to vreceive and support within its lower portion a series `of independent and portable magazines7 in eombination with said magazines, the arrangement being such that by agitating the nails in the tray, hopper7 or receptacle theywill gravitate into and be arranged in serial order in the magazines, substantially as set forth.

2. The eombinatiomwith magazines adapted to receive nails arranged in serial order, ofthe ease to support said magazines in position to be charged and a series of beveled bars to defleet nails into the magazine, substantially as Set forth.

STUART PERRY.

Witnesses:

J. T. WoosTER, DANIEL P. VoosTEn. y 

